Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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What goes up must come down.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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